YPSS members are gravely concerned about the government's plans to return Afghan children to Kabul, where they will be housed in reception centres, under the European Platform for the Return of Unaccompanied Minors.  UNHCR figures confirm that Afghanistan is becoming more dangerous, and more children are being killed. The plans for removal will simply push these children in need of protection underground, uncounted and unsupported.

The Afghan government has raised doubts about the possibility of successfully tracing family members, a key element on which the return scheme is meant to rely. A number of international organisations have expressed their concerns about child protection, and that the safety of Afghan children removed to reception centres in Kabul cannot be guaranteed.